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Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the site-to-feature-snowball-sales dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Internet domain name Hell.com is going up for sale, with bids of over $1 million expected, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Sex.com sold for about $12 million earlier this year and Diamond.com changed hands for $7.5 million. The big-money domain-name sales echo an earlier boom, when Business.com fetched $7.5 million in 1999. Today's live auction of 300 names, by Seevast Corp.'s Moniker unit, includes more than a handful it predicts will generate bids of more than $1 million, including Iran.com, Auction.com and Elections.com. Now someone who buys Hell.com "has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet," says Monte Cahn, Moniker chief executive.'"

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  1. Re:i remember when.... by bucktug · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Outside of the browser full screen stuff that I haven't seen in forever. Very cool stuff. Hell.com circra 1999 has some of the best shockwave stuff and the navigation made zero sence to me... But the three or four hours I spent on it were the most confusing of my life.

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  2. Top Level Domain Names Don't Matter by twifosp · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In the age of search engines like google, what good do top level domain names really do? If you want to know about hell, you don't type in hell.com you go to google and type in hell. If you want to buy diamonds, you don't go to diamond.com, you search for local dealers, prices,and quality buying guides.


    Why pay 1 million dollars for hell.com when you could spend a fraction of that researching proper google indexing or hiring someone to do it for you.


    Sure there is a share of goth kids who sit around and rue their surroundings who get on the internet and type hell.com and killme.com and ihatemybrother.com but whatever... who cares about emo?

  3. Re:so what's thier ip address? by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    216.216.216.216 would be a more sensible hellish IP address - 6*6*6 and all that.

    More appropriately, it actually appears to exist - it's owned by a 'New Edge Networks' based in Vancouver, WA, USA. The machine of the beast has an ISP!

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  4. The asking price is... by sethstorm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...one's soul?

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